Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] thought to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least twelve prisoners are still thought to be inside the jail and refusing to give themselves up . |
| 2 | In general , Beccaria 's philosophy exhibits what could be regarded as a curious combination of concern with the rights of the individual under the social contract on the one hand , and utilitarian reductivism on the other — curious because rights theory and utilitarianism are often thought to be philosophically incompatible . |
| 3 | Tacoma 's needle-exchange programmes are already thought to be showing results . |
| 4 | Indeed , although such characteristics are commonly thought to be the domain of animals and birds , the evidence shows that thermogenic regulation first occurred in the reptiles . |
| 5 | The proximal colon and the small intestine are also thought to be dysfunctional in IBS . |
| 6 | Copywrite fraud is now thought to be costing software companies £20m pounds a year . |
| 7 | Copywrite fraud is now thought to be costing software companies £20m pounds a year . |
| 8 | TI is also thought to be working with Sybase , another Cooperative partner . |
| 9 | The marketability of Freud is also thought to be suffering due to the artist 's recent penchant for painting the backside of performance artist Leigh Bowery , a subject of seemingly little appeal to traditional Freud collectors . |
| 10 | The employee 's estimate of £100,000 in savings was accordingly thought to be too conservative . |
| 11 | However , as many as two dozen countries are still thought to be developing chemical weapons , and the treaty will not come into force until 1995 at the earliest . |
| 12 | Indeed HP and IBM are now thought to be working on much closer relationship ( UX No 430 ) . |
| 13 | Indeed Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now thought to be working on much closer relationship — ‘ Hewlett-Packard and IBM is a done deal , ’ according to one insider . |
| 14 | The mid-West systems integrator , which specialises in servicing and supporting Sun workstations , looks set to inject some new life into the lacklustre compatible market , promising not only a ‘ true clone ’ of Sun 's Sparcstation 10 workstation — within a month of Sun 's first superscalar deliveries — but also an intermediate Sparcstation 10 IPX system , an offering Sun is also thought to be mulling , and Sparcservers too . |
| 15 | Darwin 's own account of the unrestrained ‘ law of battle ’ in animals readily fits in with the theory of natural selection ; therefore , as his account of the law of battle is now thought to be wrong , we are left with the problem of reconciling new observation and established theory . |
| 16 | Cider vinegar is also thought to be beneficial to arthritis sufferers . |
| 17 | Whereas Kazakhstan was already thought to be a springboard for additional territorial acquisitions , Siberia , as yet , was not . |
| 18 | In the nineteenth century , the effects of economic development , colonialism and capitalism were widely thought to be wholly favourable to women . |
| 19 | Active aggression is now thought to be exceptional . |
| 20 | The source of the mineralising fluids is generally thought to be Carboniferous shale basins adjacent to the carbonate plat-forms which host the mineralisation . |
| 21 | For example , attention is often thought to be directed particularly to information which is inconsistent with the currently active schema ( e.g. G.R.Loftus & Mackworth , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | For example , Matthew is usually thought to be William Taylor ( see p. 13 ) , but Taylor died at thirty-two . |
| 23 | As a result unemployment , never before a serious issue in Russia , is a major concern and a large part of the population is now thought to be below the poverty line . |
| 24 | The poetic name has been replaced by terms such as " chaotic complex " and the pseudo-scientific " Olistostromes " without really adding to our knowledge , but the essential point is that submarine landslipping is now thought to be only part of the process rather than the whole . |
| 25 | That the signing of Nafta was now thought to be unlikely until after the November 1992 US presidential elections was a serious political setback for Salinas , who had invested considerable political capital in reaching an accord . |
| 26 | Rational thought and behaviour are generally thought to be dependent in some ways upon an ability to reason logically . |
| 27 | Engineers and ceremonial officers are usually thought to be solemn people . |
| 28 | Organised crime rings are now thought to be behind the increasingly professional packaging and production of the fakes … now a multi million pound market . |
| 29 | At the moment , Asahi Shinwa is officially only affiliated to AA International , but there are no obvious barriers to an eventual merger and the two firms are already thought to be holding discussions . |
| 30 | Equator is now thought to be working on Intel Corp 's i860 RISC processor , retargeting the Trace compilers for that architecture , as well as ‘ liaising with other major vendors ’ who originally signed with Multiflow , such as Hewlett-Packard Co , HAL Computer Systems Inc and Fujitsu Ltd . |